Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fear of disgrace sufficient reason to make any one learn the correct use of his mother tongue. To read much and intelligently is to speak well; the result cannot be helped...
...never alone. Human life is begun in society, in a social group, of at least three, the father, mother, and the child itself, and as it grows, its group broadens, and its absorption of outside influences increases, till isolation is absolutely impossible...
...power of the invisible is felt by every one. The remembrance of home, of father and mother, come up before every man when he is on the point of breaking some principle which his father or mother taught him and the thought stops him where he is. The little child tempted to do something which he has been forbidden to do, sees the kind, serious face of his mother and resits his temptation. In memory, then, we see the power of the invisible...
...official language of the college was Latin, and the Class-day orators seldom attempted the vernacular. But the Latin verse was difficult and the poets from the first appear to have written in English. Toward the end of the last century the orators began to incline toward their mother tongue and this occasioned a remonstrance from the faculty in the form of a regulation, passed in 1802, that "in future no performance but a valedictory oration in the Latin language * * * be permitted" on Class-day. The faculty was soon forced from its position, however, by the growing liberalism...
...Should the larger self-governing colonies of England be allowed to negotiate commercial treaties independently of the mother country...